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Lancashire revived their hopes of qualifying for the Clydesdale Bank 40 semi-finals with a dramatic last-over win against Nottinghamshire at Old Trafford

22-May-2011
ScorecardLancashire revived their hopes of qualifying for the Clydesdale Bank 40 semi-finals with a dramatic last-over win against Nottinghamshire at Old Trafford.Chasing a revised target of 147 from 27 overs, Chris Read looked to be guiding the visitors to victory with a half-century as his side needed just 20 from the final four overs.But England bowler Sajid Mahmood returned with a stunning spell to claim two crucial wickets. Spinner Stephen Parry then took two more in the final over as the Lightning won by four runs on Duckworth/Lewis after bowling Nottinghamshire out for 142.After Lancashire made 145 for 8 from their 27 overs, Nottinghamshire started their reply badly.
Mahmood struck with his third ball as he bowled Rikki Wessels for a duck. Hogg claimed the wicket of Akhil Patel, who was caught at point by Steven Croft without scoring.And Adam Voges became the third Outlaw to go for a duck when he edged Mahmood to wicketkeeper Gareth Cross. Hogg then bowled Ben Phillips, leaving Nottinghamshire 24 for four.Alistair Brown kept them in the game with 22 off 23 balls before he was bowled by Simon Kerrigan. Read and former Lancashire player Steven Mullaney looked to have put their side in control, putting on 48 for the sixth wicket.And even when Mullaney was caught by Luke Procter off Farveez Maharoof’s bowling for 22, the Outlaws needed just 46 to win from eight overs.But Mahmood changed the game. He returned to bowl a wicket maiden, with Sam Wood lofting him to Croft for eight. And in his next over he bowled Read for 59 to leave Nottinghamshire needing eight off the final over. Parry then had Paul Franks caught by Paul Horton and wrapped up the Lightning’s second win in five games by bowling Andre Adams off the penultimate ball.Earlier Croft’s 41 from 40 balls was the backbone of the Lightning innings. After rain reduced the game to 30 overs, Stephen Moore was first to go, caught by Wessels off Darren Pattinson for four.Franks then bowled Karl Brown for six before a heavy downpour reduced the game to 27 overs.
Croft and Horton upped the rate after the break, putting on 50 in 52 balls. Wood, however, bowled Horton for 37 then trapped Maharoof lbw next ball.Adams returned to the attack to trap Croft lbw in the 20th over and two more wickets in successive balls saw Lancashire reduced to 125 for seven as first Mahmood was run out after a direct hit from Mullaney and then Cross was caught at backward point by Pattinson off Adams for 21. Procter was run out in the penultimate over for 5.

Gloucestershire Gladiators inflicted a first Clydesdale Bank 40 defeat of the
season on Yorkshire Carnegie with a 65-run victory in the opening game of the
Cheltenham Festival

29-Jul-2010
Scorecard
Gloucestershire Gladiators inflicted a first Clydesdale Bank 40 defeat of the
season on Yorkshire Carnegie with a 65-run victory in the opening game of the
Cheltenham Festival.Gloucestershire joined Yorkshire on 10 points at the top of Group B after the
visitors were bowled out for 229 in reply to 294 for 6 by the hosts. Chris Taylor, with an unbeaten 83 off 63 balls, and skipper Alex Gidman, with 64 from 57 deliveries, led Gloucestershire to an imposing total.Yorkshire slumped to 73 for 5 before Adam Lyth (84) and Tim Bresnan (58)
made a fight of the run chase with a sixth-wicket stand of 104 in 17 overs.But the game was as good as over when Bresnan, who missed out on selection for
today’s first Test at Trent Bridge, holed out to deep midwicket to give former
Yorkshire fast bowler Steve Kirby his second wicket.Kirby also had Lyth taken at mid-off as he finished with three for 41 in eight
overs. After being put in by Yorkshire captain Andrew Gale, Gloucestershire openers
Will Porterfield and James Franklin took 17 off the opening over from West
Indies paceman Tino Best.Porterfield departed in the third over, caught at second slip off Bresnan, but
Franklin and Gidman maintained a good tempo to the innings by bringing up 50 in
the eighth over and 100 in the 15th.The pair had extended their partnership to 105 in 17 overs when Franklin gave a
return catch to Steven Patterson. Gidman’s entertaining innings came to an end in the next over when he carved a delivery from Best to Richard Pyrah at backward point. His 57-ball innings had
contained seven fours and two straight sixes.There was no respite for Yorkshire, though, as Hamish Marshall and Taylor took
advantage of the short boundaries square of the wicket at the College Ground to
maintain a brisk scoring rate.A partnership of 98 in 14 overs came to an end when Marshall, whose 42 came off
38 balls, pulled Bresnan to backward square leg, where Best took the catch.Chris Dent was dismissed soon after when he sliced a drive off Patterson to
Wainwright at short third man. But that brought Steve Snell to the middle and he
and Taylor plundered 50 off the last four overs.Snell cracked three fours and a six over long-off before he was run out at the
bowler’s end, attempting a third run off Adil Rashid. Taylor smashed the next delivery over the midwicket boundary boards for six and the final over of the innings from Rashid ended up costing 19 runs.Taylor’s unbeaten 83 was his best one-day score of the season and there were
four fours and three sixes in his innings. Yorkshire’s chase got off to a disastrous start with the loss of four wickets in the opening six overs for 39 runs.Jacques Rudolph was first to go when Jon Lewis had him taken at second slip by
Richard Dawson. Anthony Ireland accounted for Gale, who played on, and Jonathan Bairstow,
caught behind, off successive deliveries and then Lewis clipped Rashid’s off
stump.Anthony McGrath helped Lyth put on 34 for the fifth wicket before Kirby had him
caught behind off a defensive edge. Lyth and Bresnan, who had dashed down from Nottingham after being told England did not need him, rallied the innings with a half-century apiece.Bresnan hit sixes over long-on and midwicket on his way to a 57-ball fifty, but
eventually fell to a fine catch on the run by Dawson in the deep off Kirby. Lyth’s valiant knock ended two overs later when he skied a drive off Kirby to Marshall at mid-off, and the rest of the innings quickly folded.The last three wickets were taken by Dawson, who had Wainwright leg before,
Pyrah caught at extra cover by Gidman and Patterson caught behind.

Yuvraj Singh, the Indian batsman, will be off to Australia for treatment on the ligament tear he suffered on his left wrist during the tour of Bangladesh

Cricinfo staff22-Feb-2010Yuvraj Singh, the Indian batsman, will be off to Australia for treatment on the ligament tear he suffered on his left wrist during the tour of Bangladesh. Yuvraj sustained the injury during the second Test in Mirpur, and was subsequently ruled out of the Test and ODI series against South Africa.”The BCCI has asked Yuvraj to go to Melbourne for consultation. But I don’t know whether he has departed,” Ratnakar Shetty, the Indian board’s chief administrative officer, told . Yuvraj had informed on his Twitter page about the decision, after India’s thrilling one-run win over South Africa in the first ODI in Jaipur. “Great stuff India! Am off to Australia for treatment — bye guys,” he wrote in his Twitter page.

The allrounder said that she wanted to reduce her workload but wasn’t ready to hand over the ODI job yet

ESPNcricinfo staff30-Aug-2024Sophie Devine will step down as New Zealand’s T20I captain at the end of the upcoming T20 World Cup in the UAE but will remain in charge of the ODI side.Devine, who has led New Zealand in 56 T20Is, will continue to play the format but felt it was the right time to reduce some of her workload and help nurture the next generation of leaders. The next Women’s ODI World Cup will take place next year in India.Related

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“I’m very proud to have had the privilege to captain the White Ferns in both formats,” Devine said. “With captaincy comes an additional workload that, while I’ve enjoyed taking on, can also be challenging at times.”Stepping away from the T20 captaincy will take a bit off my plate so I can focus more of my energy on my playing role and nurturing the future leaders.””I’m not ready to give up ODI captaincy just yet,” she added. “But I won’t be around forever, so I think stepping away from captaining one format at a time gives the next leaders time to find their feet.”Ben Swayer, the head coach, said: “Soph is the epitome of a fearless leader and we’re really grateful for the leadership she brings to this group on and off the field.”She’s one of the most experienced White Ferns ever and her leadership and knowledge of the game has been so valuable as we have introduced several young players into the team over the past two years.”I know the decision wasn’t easy for Soph, but I fully support it and know that she’s still going to be a prominent leader in the group.”Devine is currently recovering from a foot injury ahead of New Zealand’s three-match T20I series in Australia next month which will provide preparation for the World Cup. New Zealand will name their squad on September 10.A decision on who replaces Devine as T20I captain has yet to be made with New Zealand’s next series in the format after the World Cup not until they face Sri Lanka in March.

Four wickets fall inside half-an-hour’s play as County Champions end campaign with defeat

ECB Reporters Network29-Sep-2023Hampshire 219 and 172 (Vince 56, Jacks 5-87) beat Surrey 207 and 132 (Sudharsan 40, Dawson 4-53) by 52 runsHampshire dampened Surrey’s celebrations within half-an-hour’s play on the final morning at the Ageas Bowl, to become just the second team to beat them across their back-to-back LV= Insurance County Championship titles.Only Lancashire had beaten Surrey in red-ball cricket in either 2022 or 2023, winning once in each campaign.But Liam Dawson took his season tally to 49 wickets by taking two of the four wickets needed to secure victory, with Surrey only scoring 20 of the 73 required to lose by 52 runs before 11am.Despite the defeat, Surrey were presented with the Division One trophy by ECB chair, and former club chair, Richard Thompson.”It was a weird way to get over the line halfway through yesterday,” Surrey’s head coach, Gareth Batty, said. “But the County Championship is set up over six months – you don’t win it over one day or one game.”It is the marathon cup and you still have to still celebrate it and respect it, even if you are on the wrong end of the result today.Surrey had made it clear throughout the match that they had the intention to finish their triumphant season off with a victory.That plan was skewed somewhat after they were confirmed as champions before lunch on day three, and their celebrations continued after play concluded.It took five balls for Jordan Clark to advance to Mohammad Abbas and prod to James Vince at first slip.Jamie Overton came out and played a delicious straight drive, and then a powerful sweep shot.But he was less gainly when his agricultural swing saw him stumped by Ben Brown off Dawson, the start of three wickets to fall in 12 balls to end the year.Kemar Roach departed second ball when his wild swing flew to first slip, with the Abbas and Vince combo striking again. The Pakistan seamer ended the campaign with 53 scalps.Sai Sudharsan, with 73 in the first innings, batted sensibly until Dan Worrall arrived and hacked at one, at which point his stylish 40 turned more towards aggression.The Indian took on Dawson but only managed to top-edge to Vince running across from the slips to end the contest and the season.Batty admitted the result was a disappointing way to finish, but acknowledged the peculiar circumstances had played a part.”We completely understand why because we had already got to the point we had driven towards all season, and that was to lift the trophy again,” he said.”There was no blame to anybody or no nothing. We almost scratched today off because it was all about yesterday when we got over the line.”Hampshire finish third for a second year in a row having won eight times – the same as the champions.”It is nice to finish with a win. First of all though, credit to Surrey for winning it they have been the stand-out team across the whole season and they deserve to be champions,” James Vince, Hampshire’s captain, said.”We’ve finished off with three wins in a row including Essex and champions Surrey. We made finals day, lost in the final of the One Day Cup and finished third in the Championship. It is one of those years where you have been there or thereabouts in all competitions but have nothing to show for it.”It is tough to win trophies but we have been consistent across all formats for the last two or three years.”

The trip is expected to be approved by the CA board on Friday

AAP and ESPNcricinfo staff03-Feb-2022Australia remain confident a near full-strength squad will tour Pakistan with only a few players still holding security fears.Cricket Australia’s board is expected to approve its first tour to the country in 24 years on Friday, happy with the pre-trip security briefing.There were suggestions as recently as last week there was trepidation from some players over the trip, after a reported recent rise in terror attacks.But captain Pat Cummins on Thursday confirmed most players were comfortable with the tour going ahead, while understanding and accepting a few may not make the trip.Related

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“I think we’ll get close to a full-strength squad,” Cummins said. “There is still a little bit of work to do. We have received a lot of information and it has been great. All the pre-tour security and biosecurity work has been done and it’s been fantastic.”There are a couple of players still keen to get a bit more information but everyone is really pumped and feeling relatively comfortable. If anyone doesn’t make the tour it is absolutely okay, we will back them for sure.”Australia’s players are scheduled to leave the country in a little over three weeks, ahead of the first Test in Karachi from March 3. Matches will follow in Rawalpindi and Lahore provided CA approves of the current schedule.The tour will mark Australia’s first overseas Test since the 2019 and is one three subcontinent tour which form their away series in the current World Test Championship. They are due to tour Sri Lanka in the middle of the year and then India in early 2023.Cummins admitted he was unsure how selectors would squeeze down the Test XI, with Scott Boland making a case to keep his spot in the fast-bowling cartel.Josh Hazlewood is also due back from injury, while Australia have already made the call to rest Jhye Richardson.David Warner and Mitchell Marsh were rested from the upcoming T20I series against Sri Lanka with a view to the Pakistan tour.Complicating the matter further is uncertainty around the resumption of the Sheffield Shield before the tour, with Western Australia’s closed border threatening to leave them sidelined.Selectors are also unsure whether to pick a squad for traditional spinning subcontinent wickets or greener decks, with Pakistan’s best bowlers since returning home mostly quicks.”I thought about it yesterday for the first time and thought that will be a tough decision,” Cummins said. “They usually have a way of working themselves out.”We’ll have a squad of 15 who did really well in the Ashes. Crystal ball, I have no idea.  I don’t even know what the wickets are going to look like over there.”

Sir Richard Hadlee says the current group of players was New Zealand’s “best in our history”

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Former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum has admitted it was difficult to believe that the team would end their run of near-misses in world events on the final day against India in Southampton while Sir Richard Hadlee lauded the current generation as the country’s greatest ever team.In the end New Zealand reached their target with eight wickets and time to spare deep in the final session of the match, but for most of the day the tension was palpable. For a little while it appeared Tim Southee’s miss at slip against Rishabh Pant could prove costly and then R Ashwin removed both openers in quick succession in the sort of small chase McCullum termed “horrible.”However, after Ross Taylor had been spilled at slip off Jasprit Bumrah with 55 needed, the target was brought into view by increasingly confident batting from him and captain Kane Williamson before Taylor whipped a boundary off his pads to earn New Zealand the mace.Related

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“I’m not sure it’s sunk in yet,” McCullum told SEN radio. “Overnight the game was on a bit of a knife-edge – it almost had that feeling of the previous two World Cups, get close but we won’t quite get across the line. But for them to have been able to manufacture a result against the weather and a very formidable Indian side, to do it on the biggest stage is quite superb.”I’m sure over the coming days, weeks even years we’ll look back at this moment and be so proud of what Kane’s men have been able to achieve and the heights they’ve been able to scale. For a country with pretty limited resources it is pretty amazing really and to do it against the powerhouse of world cricket on the biggest stage is something that makes it more satisfying.”Hadlee, New Zealand’s leading Test wicket-taker, added significant weight to the debate about where Williamson’s team sits in the history of the game.”The whole team has shown a high degree of professionalism. Their skill sets have complimented each other to make them a complete playing unit,” Hadlee said in a statement through NZC. “The management and support staff have also played important roles in preparing players to perform at the highest level.”Over the years NZC have built a significant depth of players, which makes us one of the most competitive teams in world cricket. It’s fair to say that this current group of players is the best in our history.”Job done, New Zealand soak in the victory•ICC/Getty Images

New Zealand’s first task of the final day was to take eight India wickets and they were given the ideal start when Kyle Jamieson, who was later named Player of the Match, removed Virat Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara in quick succession.”I thought the captaincy of Kane Williamson to throw the ball to Kyle Jamieson, against previous routines, at the start of the day’s play was a bit of a masterstroke,” McCullum said. “His height and release point, they measure up so well against the Indian batters. He was able to get the openings and once that happened it really started to sense the belief among the group.”McCullum, who captained New Zealand to the final of the 2015 World Cup, was also delighted that it was Williamson and Taylor at the crease for the winning moment.”Those chases are horrible – 140 seems like a mountain of runs, especially when you know what the carrot is at the end,” he said. “Thought it was really fitting to see New Zealand’s two greats, really, when you talk batting, to see [them] home. There was a bit of luck and good fortune along the way but in this game you are entitled to a little bit if you keep banging the door down.”You could see on the faces of Kane and Ross just how much it meant to them and how satisfying to finally be able to climb that ladder.”

Mark Wood picked for back-to-back Tests, with Olly Stone missing out on recall

ESPNcricinfo staff21-Jan-2021James Anderson has been recalled by England for Friday’s second Test against Sri Lanka in Galle, at the expense of his long-term new-ball partner Stuart Broad, in a solitary change to the side that won the first Test by seven wickets earlier this week.Broad excelled in tricky conditions for fast bowling in the opening match, claiming 3 for 20 in Sri Lanka’s first-innings total of 135, before serving up 11 maidens out of 17 in their second to help restrict England’s eventual target to a manageable 74.However, with England keen to manage their first-bowling resources with four Tests looming against India, Broad has been sidelined for now, with Anderson demonstrating his readiness for action during England’s truncated intra-squad warm-up in Hambantota earlier this month, where he claimed two economical wickets in his eight-over spell.Related

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A second change to the fast-bowling ranks had been anticipated, with Mark Wood earmarked for a break after toiling through 27 wicketless overs at Galle last week.Wood’s fellow 90mph fast bowler, Olly Stone, had been touted for a second Test appearance after impressing in practice in recent days – especially given the concerns over Wood’s workload given his regular injury issues.However, Wood has been inked in for back-to-back Tests – just as he was in South Africa this time last year, where he starred in the second of those contests with a Player-of-the-Match performance. Instead, he looks set to be one of the players rotated out of England’s squad for the first two Tests in India, which is due to be announced later on Thursday.”It’s going to be a big challenge throughout this winter,” Joe Root, England’s captain, told the BBC prior to the team announcement. “As a bowling group in particular, we’re very aware for us to win and do well this winter, it is going to take a squad effort. It’s not going to take two or three players, it will take a real squad effort.”It’s very important that when these guys get their opportunity, they throw absolutely everything into the games that they play. I thought the guys did brilliantly in the first game. Whoever gets the opportunity in the second game has to better that. That’s a really exciting place for us to be as a squad.”England team for second Test: 1 Dom Sibley, 2 Zak Crawley, 3 Jonny Bairstow, 4 Joe Root (capt), 5 Dan Lawrence, 6 Jos Buttler (wk), 7 Sam Curran, 8 Dominic Bess, 9 Jack Leach, 10 Mark Wood, 11 James Anderson

Heather Knight says players want to rebuild momentum for women’s game after long wait

Valkerie Baynes17-Sep-2020England and West Indies Women plan to honour the Black Lives Matter movement when they begin their long-awaited T20I series next week.Heather Knight, the England captain, has been in contact with her West Indies counterpart, Stafanie Taylor, and the pair plan to further discuss how best to mark the movement during the five-game contest starting on Monday.The teams also will also wear the Black Lives Matter logo on their shirts, just as the England and West Indies men’s teams did during their Test series in July. Both teams and their support staff also took a knee before play throughout that series, as did England and Ireland during their three ODIs.But England, Pakistan and Australia opted not to perform the gesture in their subsequent series, drawing criticism in recent days from former West Indies great turned commentator Michael Holding.”We’ve had a chat as players and we definitely want to do something to honour the movement and give our support to it and keep the conversation happening,” Knight said.”We haven’t had a chance to catch up yet, it’s quite hard because we’re in two separate bubbles in one big bubble so I’ll speak to Stafanie over the next few days to work out exactly what that looks like for both teams. But us as players, we want to do something and we’re working to support it.”With India and South Africa cancelling planned tours in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, Knight admitted there were times when the prospect of there being no international women’s cricket during the English summer had crossed players’ minds.In May, Clare Connor, the ECB’s managing director of women’s cricket, said she would be “devastated” if there were no international women’s fixtures on English soil this summer.With England’s men having crammed all 18 of their scheduled international fixtures into a truncated summer, Knight said she would have felt “jealous” if the women had not been able to play and she praised the efforts of the ECB and CWI to arrange the tour, something she believed would not have happened just a few years ago.”I think the way the ECB have been, we knew that they were going to do everything in their power to try and get some cricket on,” Knight said.”They’ve done exactly what they would have done for the guys, which is real progress. I don’t think that would have happened sort of three or four years ago. So I think we knew that there was a good possibility that we’re playing and that was great that is locked in.”England Women’s captain Heather Knight returned to individual training in June•Getty Images

With the England men’s season concluding at the end of their ODI series against Australia on Wednesday, the women have the international stage all to themselves.The matches will be broadcast on Sky and the third game – on Saturday, September 26 – will be shown live on the BBC, the first time an international women’s fixture has been on free-to-air TV in the UK since the 1993 World Cup final.That presents an opportunity that is not lost on Knight or her squad, to rebuild some of the momentum of the T20 Women’s World Cup, which culminated more than 86,000 fans watching Australia defeat India in the final at the MCG in March, shortly before the pandemic closed down international sport and prompted many countries around the world to go into lockdown.Joking that the “weather owes us one” after their T20 World Cup semi-final against India was washed out, allowing India to progress on the strength of finishing top of their group, Knight said her players were also keen to expand on the form they had begun to unearth at the tournament.”We’ve got a real opportunity to show what we can do in these five games,” Knight said. “I think so many people are happy to have sport and cricket back on telly and hopefully they’ll tune in.”We’re looking to really push forward now as a side. We started to see a bit of a shift towards the back end of the World Cup in terms of how we want to play as a team. Obviously the weather cut that short a little bit and we weren’t able to really see where we could go but we’ve had a lot of planning time leading into the back end of the summer.”We’ve had a chance to sit down as senior players and coaches and work out where we want to go as a side and try and really push the limit of how good we can be. That’s been quite exciting and hopefully we can show that in the five games.”

An archive of our rolling Live Report, featuring news, updates, statistics, graphics and insight from our reporters at Headingley for the second Test

The Live Report by Andrew Miller01-Jun-2018Welcome to our new rolling report. This page will keep you up to date throughout the match, with updates from our team at the ground, stats and graphics, end-of-session reports, and more (if you don’t see the blog immediately, please hit refresh). But don’t worry, you can still follow traditional ball-by-ball commentary as well